AUTHOR=Bangun Yuni Ros , Pritasari Adita , Widjaja Fransisca Budyanto , Wirawan Christina , Wisesa Anggara , Ginting Henndy 

TITLE=Role of Happiness: Mediating Digital Technology and Job Performance Among Lecturers

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 12 - 2021

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.593155

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2021.593155

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=Purpose: Happiness has been the most important goal for humans throughout history and is a significant issue among university lecturers facing a rapid digital technology change. It is usually described as a well-being state, feeling satisfied and contented, consisting of positive happenings in an individual’s life concerning the social, spiritual, economic, psychological, and physiological sphere. This research examines the relationship between happiness, attitudes towards technology, and lecturers' job performance in higher education. 
Design and Methodology: This research design was a cross-sectional design that asked the respondents from lecturers of Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), one of the best universities with technology-based education in Indonesia, to complete a group of well-validated questionnaires. The questionnaires mentioned above include the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (OHQ) and three other newly constructed questionnaires, made to measure attitude towards digital technology, job satisfaction, and job performance. 
Findings: This research confirmed that happiness fully mediated the relationship between attitude toward digital technology and job performance. Additionally, this research also confirmed that happiness partially mediated the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance. These results implied that a positive attitude towards digital technology and higher job satisfaction would lead to happier lecturers who increase their job performance. 
Originality: This study suggests that a positive attitude towards technology has a higher impact than job satisfaction as determinant factors of happiness and its association with lecturers’ job performance like universities, especially ITB as a technologically-advanced workplace environment. Additionally, the OHQ framework, frequently used in studies of other countries, is now being used in the context of an Indonesian case study, precisely to measure happiness among lecturers in Indonesian higher education.